Chanting Points Memo: Repeat A Big Lie Often Enough

Nothing, of course; I threw a debate with five minutes’ warning, on a day when Mr. Dayton is likely out preening for his donors campaigning somewhere.

Pretty stupid, huh?

Not much different than the tempest in a Kombucha-bottle the local Sorosphere ginned up over yesterday’s “Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities” “debate” in Winona.

“Why does Emmer hate ‘Greater Minnesota'”, chanted any number of leftyblogs earlier in the week.

A source close to the campaign scoffed at their mock victorian vapours. “We told them we had a prior conflict”, he said. The fundraiser has been on the calendar for quite some time, and “since we’re not funded by independent expenditures, we have to raise the money”.

Which doesn’t prevent the Strib and the sorosphere’s chatbots from acting like the absence was a suprise.

Like Emmer’s “absences”, the “DWI convictions” and the “push to lower DWI penalties”, it’s not just a lie; it’s a Big Lie, an out-of-context factoid that the DFL and media (ptr) is repeating endlessly for the benefit of those too incurious to dig beneath the headlines, but whose vote counts the same as yours anyway.

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According to the CGMC yesterday, the debate was scheduled in June. Emmer regularly schedules fundraisers two months in advance? Can you tell me what fundraisers he has scheduled the second week in October, please?

Well, it’s after 4 pm and I still haven’t heard back from the Emmer campaign to confirm when the fundraiser was first planned. For what it’s worth, his website currently only shows a single fundraiser, 3 days out.

You’ll have to forgive me if I find it hard to believe he had that fundraiser scheduled two months in advance.